Normally, I'd be willing to shrug this off and attribute it to the fact that we all have slightly deluded memories of our past glory. Hell, we might have told the stories for so long that we actually believe them to be true. Normally.

But this is Skip Bayless, obnoxious gassbag. The man who gets paid a lot of money to invade the television on a daily basis and spew nonsensical sanctimonious oral scat. So fuck him. Nice job, basement dwelling internet nerds. Yet another blowhard is exposed for what he is (if there was anybody left who actually doubted that fact).

The coach wanted Bayless to be more of a PG. That means Perpetually Gone, not Point Guard, Skippy. By the way, you still shoot (your mouth off) too much. Bayless is only one of the reasons that ESPN is almost never tuned on my flat screen. Any time I hear him I begin to feel a little more stupid. No comments from the Peanut Gallery on that last sentence, please. In 30 years (at the age of 101) I too will claim that I had the original idea for the post, but yerfatma hacked my files and stole it.

No need for peanut gallery there. It's a scientifically proven fact (in fact, I proved it in high school) that listening to Skip Bayless lowers your IQ. After years of "debating" with Skip, poor, poor Stephen A. Smith is starting to show the effects.

Skip Bayless said something stupid that was later proven to be wrong. Not that major a news development.

Related to this fact is that I never watch any ESPN "New" coverage, and only rarely get to see anything like PTI (I'm interested in what they are talking about, not necessarily what they say, because ESPN-and as a subset of that IMHO, PTI-shapes the national debate on what should be talked about in sports).

But I don't really focus too much on anything any of the talking aheads actually say. Stuff like this just further's ESPN's apparent mission of making themselves the story rather than whatever the story actually may or may not be.

Yeah, but here's a guy who, despite our opinion (and it's unanimous), is pretty damn successful and he gets caught in such a pathetic lie that I almost feel sorry for him. What kind of a grown-ass man is still that insecure?